If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.